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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Sep 29

I couldn't find a good Google Trends MCP. So I just built one

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Sep 29

NixOS for government: why the Netherlands is leaving Microsoft

#news #linux #nixos #opensource

10 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Sep 29

Left-pad incident explained: how 11 lines of JavaScript broke npm

#javascript #npm #node #opensource

8 min read

Zimtzimt

Sep 29

What I learned building a Twitch chat overlay

#webdev #typescript #css #opensource

5 min read

Sam LABBE

Sep 29

TinyJS App Studio — The GUI to wrap any website or JS project into a ~6 MB desktop app, no Electron, no Node, no bundled Chromium

#javascript #webdev #opensource #desktop

4 min read

Dominic Rockson

Sep 30

I built a React Link component that prefetches before you click

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Agendamento Florescer

Sep 30

I built a tiny CLI to make open-source contributions less intimidating

#opensource #github #githubcopilot

1 min read

Hamed

Sep 29

Will your dependencies run on Cloudflare Workers? Check before you deploy

#cloudflare #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Sep 30

Two open-source starter templates: a premium Next.js portfolio and varsha, an Astro site starter

#webdev #nextjs #astro #opensource

2 min read

Xavier Portilla Edo

Sep 29

Introducing mamori: Typed, Watchable Config & Secrets for Go

#go #security #devops #opensource

14 min read

Sep 29

Calnode v0.10.1: the release our deployers wrote

#opensource #go #self

4 min read

Samuel James Hiotis

Sep 30

I built a 34-agent AI swarm on my phone — here's how

#ai #automation #opensource #node

3 min read

Sep 29

My congressional trading scraper was quietly losing half its data

#webscraping #data #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Kotha Sai Pranathi

Sep 29

How I Added Persistent Memory to a Competitive Intelligence Agent

#ai #python #opensource #agents

6 min read

Kristiyan Stoyanov

Sep 29

Building a Pi Extension with Jev: Agent Hooks, Supervision, and Real Tests

#ai #typescript #tutorial #opensource

10 min read

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